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Conlangery #57: Animacy and Agency

Conlangery Podcast

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You're Not the Boss of Me

The higher animacy, the the possessor is the less preferable it is to use of. In fact, you actually, like in Mike's note, he has that the face of me marked as ungrammatical because I don't think it seems like it could work,. but you no one ever says that. Right. But it sounds, I mean, if you use the phrase in a petulant voice, you're not the boss of me or the song there's a song you got the best of me. Well, yeah. That the best of is a phrase. Oh, it's a phrase. Pretty good.

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